Saturday, 3 December 2016

Nationals racial election bid for Mt Roskill fails:

Labour
needed a big win, they had that last night. Goff’s winning margin was 56%, Wood
has managed an astounding 67%. Watch the mainstream media now write
the win off as predictable and meaningless.

Michael Wood’s win proves that Labour’s core message of
infrastructure investment; affordable housing and empathy have more going for
it than National’s vacant aspiration. http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/by2016/

Here is what TDB wrote on the massive win:

“It
means that beyond the narrative that we are in the encore performance of a Rock
Star economy; many ordinary NZers are hurting and needing change.

The
National Party candidate’s nasty politics didn’t work and a constant stream of
gaffs against Indian students didn’t help.

Labour
needed a big win, they have that tonight. Goff’s winning margin was 56%, Wood
has managed an astounding 67%. Watch the mainstream media now write
the win off as predictable and meaningless.

Some
of the Twitter Petty pundits will spout that because NZ First and Greens
weren’t running that the win is meaningless – bullshit! It shows in stark
contrast that electoral deals work. This is what the Opposition need to do in a
number of electorates because when it is done properly, we beat National!

These
electorate deals allow the voice of change to be heard.

The
mainstream media were attacking Little’s leadership all week because they
believed the by election might have gone the way their polls do, this landslide
win undermines their view so expect a tiny story in tomorrow’s news and nothing
more.

So John Key lost really big in Northland in the by-election
when Winston Peters kick his arse and took the seat off National…Key in his
usual style wrote that off as simply a blip on the political scheme of things:

Conformation of the trend against National showed itself in
the Mt Roskill by-election and the absolute rubbish published by the New
Zealand Herald when they suggested that the by-election was too close to call.
By Sunday morning Stuff was busy publishing the National Party PR losing line:

“National
campaign manager Steven Joyce said the race had gone as he expected.

"Obviously
[Parmar] would have liked to get a better result... but the odds [were] pretty much stacked against her.

"I
think for us it was a good hit out
for the team. I think they campaigned well. It was just that it was always going to be very hard to
get our voters to turn out when they knew that we in all likelihood
wouldn't win the by-election."

Prime
Minister John Key said Parmar had "fought
a hard campaign" that focused on the issues that matter.

"By-elections are always tough,
especially when the seat has been held by your opponent's party for some
time."

The latest in thing is to claim that since the Greens and
Labour have signed a deal to work together; the parties are now moving toward
the ‘Left’.

This is utter crap, the Greens have drifted further
toward the middle ground and Labour hasn’t really moved at all other than to
get rid of Phil Goff that great lover of the TPPA and neoliberal politics. This
from TDB explains it well:

“Look
at Labour policy and look at Green Policy. Nothing they are suggesting is
actually that much more different than the current political status quo. The
Greens have moved so far to the centre on the environment that the dairy
industry is exempt from any real changes for at least 5 years. Labour doesn’t
have any real difference in neoliberal welfare either. Homes for first time
buyers is about as ‘radical’ as Labour gets.

These
right wing media pundits who keep claiming that Labour+Greens are somehow too
left wing wouldn’t know a Left wing position if Zombie Marx rose from the grave
and bit them!

If
anything Labour+Greens are still far too centrist to generate any excitement in
the missing million voters. That’s why Gareth Morgan might suggest welfare and
environment policy that is far more radical than what’s being offered by the
Greens or Labour.

Another
false narrative being woven by the mainstream media is that it’s all over for
Andrew Little. This is media nonsense.

Duncan Garner that failed and now dumped TV3 political whiz
kid wrote the following the day before the Mount Roskill by-election:

OPINION: It
has been a dreadful end to the year
for Andrew Little.

He desperately
needs a fillip on Saturday of a strong win for Labour in the
Mt Roskill by-election. Should that not happen his year goes from bad to much,
much worse?

Lose on Saturday and Labour goes from chaos
to a full-blown crisis.

Poor old unwanted
Duncan Garner will now have to eat his own words…like the Herald his
predictions have been proven absolutely wrong.

Have a look at the numbers:

WOOD, Michael

LAB

11170

PARMAR, Parmjeet

NAT

4652

NAUHRIA, Roshan

PEO

709

LEITCH, Andrew

NZDSC

125

STRONGE, Brandon

ALCP

79

GOODE, Richard

NAP

40

SCHUSTER, Tua

IND

32

Candidate Informals:

50

TOTAL:

16,857

This shows you how clearly Wood thrashed or trashed Parmar;
he took 67% of the vote, after getting that news I imagine that John Key asked
his son Max for a hug or two, or went out to the nearest coffee bar to find a
pony tail to pull…

It’s too early to suggest that next year’s election will be
a Labour coalition or a National coalition victory …but it is certainly a wide open
election, but anything is possible, Key could resign and go live in Hawaii.